“Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.”

— Louise Glück , The Wild Iris

Source: "The Wild Iris" 1992

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American poet 1943–2023

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